SU Project for Beginners

[Colin C]

HI Dave

I have a question :?
How have you got all the icons on you pictures of sketchup :roll:

Thanks for this as it will give me some thing to work on for the next 5-6 years :wink:

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Colin, I don't quite understand your question.

 

[Jake]

Print screen, Dave?

 

[John McM]

Dave, that little video clip was great. It is so much easier to understand something when you can see it actually being done. Video is definitely the way to go for tutorials, especially if you can get audio in there somehow. I really hope the webspace issues can be resolved. Topman
John McM

 

[Colin C]

Dave

When I open SU, I have just the basic ones ( Line, Eraser and circle ), but you seem to have lots more and I guess it is easier to have more on the desk top than have to look for them

I hope that is clearer

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Ah! I see. Yes, I have a lot of toolbars turned on. I do prefer that to having to go to the menus for everything. I also have a number of keyboard shortcuts set up for functions that don't have tools on toolbars.

Jake, I've been using Wink to do screen capture. The video clip was done using Wink, too.

John, I think you're right. Video makes it easier to understand some of the operations. I wish I could easily do video of everything and post it some place. The problem is small files end up requiring low resolution and that can make it difficult to see the actual operation being done.

 

[Jake]

Ah - try rightclicking with the mouse hovering over the grey menu strip - does it offer additional menu items to tick?

 

[andrewm]

Ah - try rightclicking with the mouse hovering over the grey menu strip - does it offer additional menu items to tick?

Doesn't for me but try: View | Toolbars and then select the ones that youwant. I'm with Dave here. I have most of them turned on.

Andrew

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Jake, as Andrew says, View>Toolbars will get you to the ones you have available. You'll notice in the video clip there are more toolbars turned on than in the stills for this tutorial. They were done on two different machines. for the tutorial I turned off many of the toolbars that I normally have turned on. Some of those toolbars that appear in the video clip are generated by Ruby scripts. Housebuilder is the second row of tools across the the top. there is a Selection tools toolbar and a Projection toolbar down on the left side.

My understanding is that those toolbars are not functional in Google SketchUp.

Edited to add: I also set the toolbars to show large icons for the tutorial to make them more visible when I reduce the image sizes after capture.

 

[Good Surname or what ?]

A left to right selection only selects those line segments that fall entirely within the box. A right to left selection box selects all line segments the even partially fall in the box.

Another revelation!
Thanks
Phil

 

[Colin C]

Thanks

I now have my toolbars on but now have to go through this thread and try to get it in my head ( like shoe horning an encycopedia in to a pea :roll: ).

I will just have to try harder :wink:

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Colin, the problem is you're not holding your tongue quite right. Try sticking it out on the left side instead of the right.

 

[Colin C]

Thanks Dave

I will have to try that as that might have been why some of it was sticking and some was not :shock: :wink:

 

[Jake]

Jake, as Andrew says, View>Toolbars will get you to the ones you have available.

That's the problem with trying to answer sketchup problems on PC without sketchup installed on it. I should know better!

 

[gidon]

Dave
I use Wink - it's an excellent tool - but the free video hosting sites don't support the Flash format for upload (even though they convert your vids to Flash!). And converting from SWF to AVI only to go back to SWF is too much hassle in my opinion. Plus I reckon the Camstudio tool mentioned above seems pretty well suited for Sketchup actually (especially since your time is of the essence) - since you doing a lot of clicks anyway the file sizes aren't much bigger.
But the biggest selling point is if you just record to AVI format, you can upload to YouTube - for free (up to 100MB files at a time).
The quality is the only issue, but I just tried it and I think it's good enough to see what you're doing. Could probably get better depending on what codec you choose in Camstudio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsCxmUfU25Q
Cheers
Gidon

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Gidon,

I do need to look at Camstudio. I didn't realize it did AVI output. Maybe Youtube and Camstudio is the answer.

Thanks.

Dave

 

[SketchUp Guru]

That video clip looks good enough I think. I'll have a go at it when I get a minute.

 

[gidon]

Dave
Great - look forward to seeing how it works out!
Cheers
Gidon

 

[John McM]

Chaps,

Google Video has some SU videos using Camstudio and it's free to upload to. Don't know the merits of this site verse Youtube, might be worth a look to compare quality etc.

Regards
John McM

 

[gidon]

John - Google have bought YouTube as of a week ago. I've tried their video site before - it's similiar to YouTube quality-wise. But I guess it'll become trivial as the merger unfolds.
Cheers
Gidon